Justin Baldoni's lawyer has an ace in the hole in his client's legal war with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds ... and the threat of a Taylor Swift deposition can go a long way here.
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00:00I'm just going to put it out there.
00:04This case is never going to trial.
00:08This case will never see a courtroom.
00:11This case was never filed to be tried.
00:14It was filed for PR on both sides.
00:17Oh, I think clearly this is totally generated by PR reasons on both sides.
00:25And I will tell you why.
00:26The first thing was, they did not file a lawsuit.
00:30People have to understand that this was a claim.
00:34This was the precursor, precondition to filing a lawsuit.
00:38This was a way to take that, file that, use that to get the interest of the New York Times,
00:48the catnip for them to take the bait.
00:51You are going to depose Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Swift, who else?
00:57I don't know that we're going to depose Taylor Swift or not.
01:03I think that that's going to be probably a game time decision.
01:06I don't know that that decision has been made, but I can tell you this, anyone that reasonably
01:14has information that can provide evidence in this case is going to be deposed.
01:22That's Taylor Swift.
01:23She was there for that meeting.
01:25She was there for that meeting.
01:27Okay.
01:28Well, I'm a lawyer.
01:29I know what that means.
01:31And that's why I'm just thinking that even when you take Blake and Ryan out of it in
01:39terms of how they personally feel about it all, I mean, to say that we're going to put
01:44Taylor Swift in the middle of this whole thing, I think they are going to do everything they
01:49can to avoid going to court because the last thing they want is to have their friend, the
01:57biggest star in the world now, sitting on a stand being grilled by Brian Friedman.
02:03My assumption is that they're going to probably take some legal actions that are beyond the
02:13bounds of decency and we'll see if they can try to avoid a deposition.
02:18How could they do that?
02:19If there's relevance.
02:20We're going to object and order the witness not to testify.
02:25You're not his lawyer.
02:26You're his friend.
02:27Jeez.
02:28Mark, Mark is usually my lawyer though.
02:32I'm working here, guys.